Generic+and+Focused+Summaries

Depending on the level of detail that might be useful for each assignment, have students write out a paragraph or a page of summary for each assigned reading. When collected in a reading journal or learning log, these summaries help students understand readings more fully when they are first assigned and remember them clearly for later tests or synthesis assignments.
 * Generic Summaries:**

You might also consider asking students to do more focused summaries. By providing key questions about the reading, you can help students narrow in on the main ideas you want them to emphasize and remember from a reading.
 * Focused Summaries:**

Source: http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop5b.cfm

[|How to Write a Summary:]


 * //Teaching Tips...//**


 * A Few Possibilities:**
 * Students can make meaning of the reading by briefly summarizing chapters. For example, they can bulletpoint "the big three" points of every reading assignment.
 * Students can also seek a more focused goal (generated either by the teacher or the student) in each reading assignment and use this page to summarize their findings.
 * This page is also a useful tool for helping students make meaning of class; at the end of each class, they can summarize what was discussed or accomplished that day. This can also be done at the end of a larger unit or project.
 * If students are working with a partner or group, this page can also be used for summarizing what the partnership or group accomplished in a particular class or throughout a larger unit.


 * Student Examples:**

Click here for an example of a "Generic and Focused Summaries" page that summarizes the daily discussions and accomplishments of a student group.

Click here for a "Generic and Focused Summaries" page that summarizes "the big three" from each reading assignment.

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